+The platform itself is a nonprofit initiative supported by several well-known groups on both sides of these transactions, and a 16-person national leadership panel of more philanthropy experts.
+Now the nonprofits that apply for and receive much of that money are offering some anonymous feedback on those foundations through a new online rating tool called GrantAdvisor.org.
+Jon Pratt, executive director of the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, says the foundation "was looking for the flashiest idea, but there wasn’t any vetting. Did the people proposing the idea have the capabilities to carry it out?
+Such talk did not go over well with Rinal Ray, an attorney and deputy public policy director for the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, which is based in St. Paul. Ray wrote an amicus brief in First Baptist Church vs. St.
+Jon Pratt, executive director of the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, said, generally speaking, donations to various groups do tend to spike after big national events, especially tragedies. But this, he said, is different.
+Higher wages also help nonprofits retain employees and make jobs in the sector affordable for people who find the work rewarding.
+Susie Brown traces her interest in public policy to door-knocking she did years ago on behalf of her sister-in-law’s statehouse bid — a sister-in-law (and ex-Minnesotan) known since February 2015 as Oregon Gov. Kate Brown.
+In its brief, the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits asserted that municipal fees "are an erosion of the constitutional property tax exemption for institutions of purely public charities, seminaries of learning, churches, colleges, hospitals and...
+While some Minnesota nonprofits are mentioning Giving Tuesday on their websites and Facebook pages, few are building fundraisers or events around it.
+Why is state-level advocacy so effective? For one thing, “because all politics is local,” says Jeff Shaw, director of public policy at the Connecticut Association of Nonprofits.
